src/pages/search.tsx

@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ import {
   NDKKind,
   NDKSubscriptionCacheUsage,
   NDKUserProfile,
+  NostrEvent,
   profileFromEvent
 } from '@nostr-dev-kit/ndk'
 import { ErrorBoundary } from 'components/ErrorBoundary'
 import { GameCard } from 'components/GameCard'
-import { LoadingSpinner } from 'components/LoadingSpinner'
 import { ModCard } from 'components/ModCard'
 import { ModFilter } from 'components/ModsFilter'
 import { Pagination } from 'components/Pagination'
@@ -35,10 +35,7 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_FILTER_OPTIONS,
   extractModData,
   isModDataComplete,
-  log,
-  LogType,
-  scrollIntoView,
-  timeout
+  scrollIntoView
 } from 'utils'
 
 enum SearchKindEnum {
@@ -364,48 +361,70 @@ const UsersResult = ({
   moderationFilter,
   muteLists
 }: UsersResultProps) => {
-  const { fetchEvents } = useNDKContext()
-  const [isFetching, setIsFetching] = useState(false)
+  const { ndk } = useNDKContext()
   const [profiles, setProfiles] = useState<NDKUserProfile[]>([])
-
   const userState = useAppSelector((state) => state.user)
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (searchTerm === '') {
       setProfiles([])
     } else {
-      const fetchProfiles = async () => {
-        setIsFetching(true)
-
-        const filter: NDKFilter = {
+      const sub = ndk.subscribe(
+        {
           kinds: [NDKKind.Metadata],
           search: searchTerm
+        },
+        {
+          closeOnEose: true,
+          cacheUsage: NDKSubscriptionCacheUsage.PARALLEL
+        },
+        undefined,
+        false
+      )
+
+      // Stop the sub after 10 seconds if we are still searching the same term as before
+      window.setTimeout(() => {
+        if (sub.filter.search === searchTerm) {
+          sub.stop()
         }
+      }, 10000)
 
-        const profiles = await Promise.race([
-          fetchEvents(filter),
-          timeout(10 * 1000)
-        ])
-          .then((events) => {
-            const results = events.map((event) => {
-              const ndkEvent = new NDKEvent(undefined, event)
-              const profile = profileFromEvent(ndkEvent)
-              return profile
-            })
-            return results
-          })
-          .catch((err) => {
-            log(true, LogType.Error, 'An error occurred in fetching users', err)
-            return []
-          })
+      const onEvent = (event: NostrEvent | NDKEvent) => {
+        if (!(event instanceof NDKEvent)) event = new NDKEvent(undefined, event)
+        const dedupKey = event.deduplicationKey()
+        const existingEvent = events.get(dedupKey)
+        if (existingEvent) {
+          event = dedup(existingEvent, event)
+        }
+        event.ndk = this
+        events.set(dedupKey, event)
 
+        // We can't rely on the 'eose' to arrive
+        // Instead we repeat and sort results on each event
+        const ndkEvents = Array.from(events.values())
+        const profiles: NDKUserProfile[] = []
+        ndkEvents.forEach((event) => {
+          try {
+            const profile = profileFromEvent(event)
+            profiles.push(profile)
+          } catch (error) {
+            // If we are unable to parse silently skip over the errors
+          }
+        })
         setProfiles(profiles)
-        setIsFetching(false)
       }
 
-      fetchProfiles()
+      // Clear previous results
+      const events = new Map<string, NDKEvent>()
+
+      // Bind handler and start the sub
+      sub.on('event', onEvent)
+      sub.start()
+      return () => {
+        sub.stop()
       }
-  }, [fetchEvents, searchTerm])
+    }
+  }, [ndk, searchTerm])
 
   const filteredProfiles = useMemo(() => {
     let filtered = [...profiles]
@@ -430,7 +449,6 @@ const UsersResult = ({
   }, [userState.user?.npub, moderationFilter, profiles, muteLists])
   return (
     <>
-      {isFetching && <LoadingSpinner desc='Fetching Profiles' />}
       <div className='IBMSecMain IBMSMListWrapper'>
         <div className='IBMSMList'>
           {filteredProfiles.map((profile) => {
@@ -505,3 +523,11 @@ const GamesResult = ({ searchTerm }: GamesResultProps) => {
     </>
   )
 }
+function dedup(event1: NDKEvent, event2: NDKEvent) {
+  // return the newest of the two
+  if (event1.created_at! > event2.created_at!) {
+    return event1
+  }
+
+  return event2
+}